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To start our day we had a little visitor while eating breakfast by the garden… (just wait for the bird feeder project!)
We finally go back to woodworking today (…a lot more fun than spackling). Here is the new sill for the front window. To get enough thickness we had to laminate two boards, then rounded over the edges on the router table and lastly the cut itself is always a bit tricky.
Next we cover over the old jamb extensions with new oak.
Then started applying casing and the apron… There is obviously a little more to go so stay tuned.
The apron was also two boards glued up and cut to match the orginal profile.
In the kitchen I also got back to the basement door. I sanded the jambs to expose the old wood to be stained with the new casing. The inside of the frame beyond the (to be reinstalled) stop will remain painted.
The drywall around the door is smooth, flat, level, and done! And soon to be painted…
So that was it for our restful Sunday!
More spackling in the kitchen:
We primed all the fresh drywall and spackle:
We foamed (Great Stuff) around the front window so we can start trimming the window tomorrow…
That is … On the basement door since the Living Room trim will wrap the corner into the kitchen.
We have yet to decide what to do with this door but either way the frame needs to be patched in.
And the frame needed to be packed out slightly to even out the wall and trim.
Unfortunately one side was high and the other two low so I had to fill in the wall… For this we used the powdered joint compound because the premix stuff would never dry.
When done the two corners and trim will all be aligned and it worked out nicely to even be parallel with the floor joints…
We are trying to keep this project going forward amid all of the other life obligations … We did get a few things done this weekend. There was some more sanding & spackling….
The door jamb got packed out in Oak for the new trim.
And a few more corner blocks got stripped in the slow cooker.
They still need sanding but this method is so much easier than the heat gun!
And of course there were a few things done on the stain glass window. McElf is getting set up to start fabricating in the near future.
This weekend we worked on getting the old openings ready for new trim…
We packed the wall out to support the drywall & trim.
Cut and replaced the gouged and uneven area of the old door frame.
And in filled with drywall. The current drywall is 1/2″ proud as it was laminated over the old plaster, partially burying the trim. Packing these areas out recreates the proper wall to trim relationship.
And of course, next comes the spackling!
Here is the window as of Sunday night.
We also denailed all the old trim so it can be salvaged, which is not a fun process but the old trim is pretty.
An interesting find, the old carpenters wrote their notes all over the backs of the old trim, very cool.
Time to finish the Half Bath window trim…
The wood we glued up earlier in the week was ready to be sanded smooth and the profile cut into the ends:
Then up it went!
Here is a detail shot. The fact that the walls are already painted makes it look so much nicer…
And all done:
Of course there is still lots more to do… the front window sill and apron both got glued up yesterday so we will get to repeat this process in a few days….
We have had great results stripping all kinds of things with the crock pot method so I thought I would try some of our oak corner blocks…
Some water, soap, and a few hours and the paint is ready to come off.
The paint came off easily in one peice exposed the old oak! We should have thought of this sooner… It’s much easier than the heat gun!
We finally got back to half bath window trim tonight.
Last time I just finished the jamb extensions. You can still see the shims sticking out.
So here is the casing installed!
For the apron, I ripped a piece of the casing in half and glued it to a piece of flat stock to form the correct profile.
Once sanded and the ends cut it will match the original aprons and once stained the joint will be hardly visible.
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